Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-11-11
Friday, November III, 1857.
THE mURDEROUs ANARCHISTS.


To-day will be a solemn day in Chicago,
and throughout this country and the civilized
world its so1emnity and meaning will also be
felt. For the proceedings there will mark
the supremacy of Law and show the world
that murderous anarchy will not be tolerated
here.
A great effort has been made during the
last few months to show that the men who
will die in Chicago to-day will die for opin-
ions sake, and will be martyrs. Nothing
could be moro absurd or shocking to right
thought. They will not suffer for their opin-
ions. They will suffer because they conspired
to commit cowardly murder and took meas
ures to carry out the conspiracy. The mar
tyrs in this case are the brave policemen who
died by the slaughterisg bomb while doing
their duty. 1t is true that these martyrs
seem to have been almost forgotten lately,
bat they are remembered by many besides
those who have most reason to mourn their
loss, and their martyrdom will be more and
more recognized as time goes on. They died
for law and order, and they and their brave
comrades deserve lasting honor.
There will be feeling of relief when jus
tice has done its awful work. Relief because
the murderers have been properly punished,
and relief because such villains will not be
able to pose before the country any longer.
The performances in the Chicago jail lately
have been about as improper and sickening
as gushing and fanatical men and silly we-
men could make them. And through them
all until within the last few hours the muir
derers have been defiant and even impudent.
It was only when the shadow of the gallows
fell upon them and their friends and admir-
ers were kept away from them that they
seemed to lose any of their swagger and their
contempt for the law whose heavy hand was
upon them. 1t has been a sorry spectacle,
and it is a good thing that it is ended.
The lesson of to-day is plain one. This
is free country. For years vagabonds and
rufians from various parts of Europe have
been coming here bringing with them con-
tempt for all government and complete in
capacity to understand our institu tions.
They have been allowed to talk as much as
they pleased, the good -natured people of this
country having firm belief in the stability
of American freedom and the harmlessness
of talk. They have been, it now appears,
allowed to conspirs to commit murder, and
nobody has interfered with them. But to-day
will teach that the notion that we must not
do whatever is necessary to prevent men pub
licly recommending murder and arson, be-
cause they are sincere in thinking murder
and arson good means to noble ends, is ex-
p1oded. 1t is high time. 1t has become evil
dent that the Anarchists will not be ruled by
love or quieted by Indifference. Society must
defend itself. The justice of today's work
will be recognized by all good citizens. Their
only regret will be that any of the conspira-
tors were allo we'd to escape the full penalty
of the law.
Some fear that there will be trouble in
Chicago to-day. 1t is not probable that there
will. If there is it will be as good time to
meet it any, and il will be met promptly
and thoroughly.